Specialist Deitz, I salute you, and the other truthtellers of the 2nd Battle Combat Team, 3rd ID. If that piece of *#!@! excuse for a Secretary of Defense were sitting here with me, I'd demand his resignation too. Because it would be unseemly to have him on the payroll when we hand his ass over the icc.

Wasn't he reprimanded or soemthing like that for "insubordination"?I seem to remember that during the Clinton Administration soldiers who attacked Clinton were hailed by conservatives as heroes and great patriots.

Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Transportation, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

IMO that doesn't even begin to apply. Nor does Article 891, Article 91, paragraph 3. I just don't see it, but I do recall that some Kossacks who professed expertise in military justice thought there might be a case against the guys who dared to express their opinions of Rumsfeld.

I remember thinking that couldn't easily be construed as "contemptuous words," given the extreme profanities our soldiers are known to utter from time to time. If the name of the game is use contemptuous words to describe your feelings for Secretary Rumsfeld, "I would ask him for his resignation" doesn't cut it.

Well, that's my humble opinion. That and a dollar will get you a cup of coffee.

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